Action Again as Nazi Guns Shell Dover Dover, Sept. 27.
A brilliant "fireworks" display could be seen along the French coast last night as the Royal Air Force appeared to be resuming its hammering of German invasion bases.
German long range guns opened fire on Dover at 4 p.m. yesterday from the Cap Guz Nez area, dropping shells on this city at ten minute intervals for more than an hour.
Two empty cottages were wrecked while a house and a public house were damaged. Windows over a wide area were shattered. There were a number of casualties, including two persons killed, from the blast of a single shell.
Another large shell damaged the stained glass windows of a Dover church.
Correspondents here ducked for cover after the first shell struck the town without warning. At ten minute intervals the city was rocked by additional salvoes from the German long range batteries.
Damaged buildings were pitted with shrapnel and the streets in several districts were filled with broken glass.
British batteries along the coast near here did not return the German fire. German batteries which shelled Dover yesterday appeared to be near the spot bombed for seven hours the previous night by waves of RAF. bombers. Consequently, the shelling of Dor might have been considered an act of retaliation by the Germans.—United Press.
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